AT&T Opposes FCC’s Prong 2 on Access Stimulation
The FCC should adopt only Prong 1 in its NPRM on access stimulation, AT&T filed Tuesday in docket 01-92. While 1 would address some underlying causes of access stimulation and “benefit consumers, ensure reasonable rates, and serve the public interest,”…
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Prong 2 would be ineffective and “would exacerbate the ‘whack-a-mole’ problem that has allowed these schemes to fester for more than a decade,” the telco said. "Act promptly to either complete its stated goal in the 2011 Transformation Order of finishing the transition of switched access traffic to bill and keep, or, in the context of access stimulation traffic," adopt only Prong 1 on the NPRM, it asked. "Prong 2 would allow these schemes to continue to flourish, because access stimulators would simply chose to operate in even more remote areas where direct connections would be either prohibitively expensive or infeasible."